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A BRUTAL boyfriend who battered a young mum after she revealed she wanted to leave him has been jailed after a huge Facebook search to find him.Jenna Thomas, 22, showed off her black and bloodshot eyes and swollen face in a bid to catch attacker Jamie Webber, 27.Jenna's horrifying images were shared online hundreds of times before Webber was tracked down by police.He admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm at Newport Crown Court over the brutal assault and was jailed for three years.Prosecutor David Pugh said Webber attacked his girlfriend after accusing her of being unfaithful.Mr Pugh said: "She decided she was not happy in the relationship and told him she wanted him to leave."He started going through her phone and found a message from her son's father. Webber would not accept that."He approached her from behind, putting his arms around her neck. He asked her again who he was while he was squeezing so tightly she couldn't not breathe and lost consciousness."He added: "After … [Read more...] about Savage boyfriend who battered his young mum lover after she revealed she wanted to leave him is jailed following huge Facebook search

In a statement on Monday, Google said a policy change was in the works which would prevent websites that misrepresent content from using its AdSense advertising network. The company did not detail how it would implement or enforce the new policy. "Moving forward, we will restrict ad serving on pages that misrepresent, misstate, or conceal information about the publisher, the publisher's content, or the primary purpose of the web property," Google said in a statement. The company's planned policy change fails, however, to address the issue of fake news or hoaxes appearing in Google search results. Instead, the change aims to assure users that publishers on the network are legitimate and eliminating financial incentives that appear to have driven the production of much fake news. It was unclear whether the company had adopted a mechanism to rate the accuracy of particular articles. Ban on 'illegal, misleading or deceptive' content Facebook, meanwhile, … [Read more...] about Google, Facebook move to clamp down on fake news sites

In a Monday meeting with the Germany's new media parliamentary sub-committee, officials from Facebook and Google tried to reassure lawmakers that the companies were in compliance with German and European privacy and data protection laws. German data protection officials argued that the companies should be subject to new, updated legislation. However, Germany's interior ministry said it preferred industry-wide self-regulation rather than new laws. "We are pleased that the new media sub-committee of the German [parliament] is interested in the issue and felt that their meeting today was helpful," a Facebook spokesperson said in an e-mail sent to Deutsche Welle. But other parliamentarians said that Facebook has not been very forthright when responding to criticisms coming from Germany. "This is not reasonable dialogue, if there is a contact in Ireland, who comes every few weeks to Germany," said Thomas Jarzombek, German MP and member of the sub-committee. Schleswig-Holstein … [Read more...] about Facebook meets with German parliamentary sub-committee

Google's latest figures, released on Wednesday, showed no let up in the number of people asking the US-based search engine to be forgotten. A total of 348,085 requests for information to vanish from search results have been received since a European Court of Justice ruling in May 2014 which recognized EU citizens' "right to be forgotten." The company fought the ruling, claiming that the judgment opened the door to censorship. The number has grown almost 40 percent since Google last revealed "forget me" figures in May. The latest data revealed that a total of 1,234,092 URLs (website addresses) have been evaluated for removal. France leads The top country for removal requests was France, where officials have taken aim at the Internet giant over data protection issues, followed by Germany and Great Britain. More than 73,000 requests have been received from French Internet users and slightly less than half have been removed. Across Europe, around 58 percent of requests were been … [Read more...] about France, Germany lead in Google ‘forget’ requests

Facebook's head of human resources, Lori Matloff Goler, said employees will be allowed to take the paid leave at any point up to a year after the birth or adoption of their child. "In reviewing our parental leave policies, we have decided to make this change because it's the right thing to do for our people and their families," Goler said in a post on her Facebook page this week. "We want to be there for our people at all stages of life, and, in particular, we strive to be a leading place to work for families," she added. The change in policy will put the firm's paternity leave outside the United States on par with maternity leave at Facebook workplaces around the world, and also extends the benefit to same-sex couples. 'Better outcomes' Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said last week that he would be taking two months paternity leave following the upcoming birth of his daughter. He and his wife, Priscilla Chan, announced in July that they were expecting their first child. … [Read more...] about Facebook dads and same-sex couples to benefit from changes to parental leave

It used to be that advertising agencies had just 30 or 60 seconds to convey the entirety of their Christmas message. Today those constraints are gone. Companies can now fulfill their creative visions with videos lasting two, three, even four minutes through online platforms like Youtube or Facebook. The result is a new Christmas tradition: the expectation, or hope, that we internet users will be gifted every year with what basically amounts to free short films that makes us laugh or cry. 1. This year's winner appears to be "English for Beginners." The story involves an elderly Polish man who begins teaching himself the English language for reasons that remain unclear until the final scene. It's been viewed nearly eight million times since its release in late November and comes from a company most English speakers had never heard of previously, the Polish auction site Allegro. 2. The Allegro clip is, in its own way, a sort of reverse tale of a Christmas ad that went viral last … [Read more...] about 7 viral ads from Christmas past, present and future

Over the last five years, acts like Lady Gaga, Red Hot Chili Peppers or The xx have visited Lithuania for the first time and were greeted by sold-out crowds. Lithuania has put itself on the map for the Western music market since breaking free from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. This may not have happened without the advertising money from international beer companies targeting young music fans - ads that Parliament voted to ban on Thursday in Vilnius. "We wouldn't be able to bring artists like Ellie Goulding, Moderat or Nicolas Jaar to Vilnius without corporate sponsors. And beer companies were the only ones willing to invest in contemporary music," says Victor Diawara, a musician and director of Loftas, one of the busiest music clubs in Vilnius. The club also hosts its own music festival. Beer and live music traditionally go hand in hand, not only culturally, but also financially. The leading music festivals in Europe, such as Rock am Ring in Germany, which opens on Friday, or … [Read more...] about Music festivals with less alcohol? Lithuania leads the way

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has never been a fan of social media. For weeks now, recordings of his telephone calls have been popping up on YouTube and spreading like wildfire via Facebook and Twitter. Erdogan has already introduced a controversial law clamping down on the Internet, and now he has sparked yet another furore. In a television interview with the broadcaster ATV on Wednesday (06.03.2014), the Turkish premier threatened to ban YouTube and Facebook altogether. "We will not leave this nation at the mercy of YouTube and Facebook," he said. He warned that the government would take action after the local elections on March 30, which are starting to be seen as a kind of referendum on his policies. "These people incite any kind of immorality or espionage for the profit of these institutions," he said. This kind of "mentality of freedom," he added, could not be permitted. For the social media platform Twitter, Erdogan's comments were like a red rag to a bull. … [Read more...] about Erdogan’s fear of YouTube and Facebook

Twitter said on Thursday it will ban advertisements from RT, an English-language television news station formally known as "Russia Today," and Sputnik, an English-language news website, from its popular short messaging service "effective immediately." "This decision was based on the retrospective work we've been doing around the 2016 US election and the US intelligence community's conclusion that both RT and Sputnik attempted to interfere with the election on behalf of the Russian government," a company statement said. Both media outlets will be allowed to continue using their Twitter accounts for non-advertisement purposes. The San Francisco-based company said it will donate the estimated $1.9 million (€1.6 million) RT and Sputnik paid for advertisements since 2011 "to support external research into the use of Twitter in civic engagement and elections, including use of malicious automation and misinformation." Read more: Facebook agrees to disclose US election ads bought by … [Read more...] about Twitter bans ads from RT and Sputnik citing electoral meddling

The Facebook website was launched on February 4, 2004, from a dorm-room at Harvard College in Boston. At the time, sign-up was limited to Harvard students — a very small and specialized market. The website was a simple online website application of paper "face-books," which are booklets organizers prepare for participants in some workshops, classes or conferences, showing pictures and mini-biographies of the people attending. Facebook the website — was opened up to the general public in 2006. From then onward, anyone 13 years old or older could sign up for a Facebook member page. A couple of months ago, on July 26, 2017, just eleven years later, the website had about 2 billion active members. The market valuation of Facebook's stock exceeded $500 billion (416 billion euros). Its 2016 revenues were $27.6 billion, of which an astounding $10.2 billion were net income. The company is wildly profitable, and its main founder, Mark Zuckerberg, pictured at top, … [Read more...] about Network effects helped Facebook win